The Wild Knight and Other Poems

By G. K. Chesterton

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 4, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664586964

G. K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English writer, philosopher and critic known for his creative wordplay. Born in London, Chesterton attended St. Paul’s School before enrolling in the Slade School of Fine Art at University College. His professional writing career began as a freelance critic where he focused on art and literature. He then ventured into fiction with his novels The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who Was Thursday as well as a series of stories featuring Father Brown.

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G. K. Chesterton

The Wild Knight and Other Poems

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4057664586964

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BY THE BABE UNBORN

THE WORLD'S LOVER

THE SKELETON

A CHORD OF COLOUR

THE HAPPY MAN

THE UNPARDONABLE SIN

A NOVELTY

ULTIMATE

THE DONKEY

THE BEATIFIC VISION

THE HOPE OF THE STREETS

ECCLESIASTES

THE SONG OF THE CHILDREN

THE FISH

GOLD LEAVES

THOU SHALT NOT KILL

A CERTAIN EVENING

A MAN AND HIS IMAGE

THE MARINER

THE TRIUMPH OF MAN

CYCLOPEAN

JOSEPH

MODERN ELFLAND

ETERNITIES

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

ALONE

KING'S CROSS STATION

THE HUMAN TREE

TO THEM THAT MOURN

THE OUTLAW

BEHIND

THE END OF FEAR

THE HOLY OF HOLIES

THE MIRROR OF MADMEN

E.C.B.

THE DESECRATERS

AN ALLIANCE

THE ANCIENT OF DAYS

THE LAST MASQUERADE

THE EARTH'S SHAME

VANITY

THE LAMP POST

THE PESSIMIST

A FAIRY TALE

A PORTRAIT

FEMINA CONTRA MUNDUM

TO A CERTAIN NATION

THE PRAISE OF DUST

THE BALLAD OF THE BATTLE OF GIBEON

THE BALLAD OF GOD-MAKERS

AT NIGHT

THE WOOD-CUTTER

ART COLOURS

THE TWO WOMEN

THE WILD KNIGHT

THE WILD KNIGHT

GOOD NEWS

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Another tattered rhymster in the ring,

With but the old plea to the sneering schools,

That on him too, some secret night in spring

Came the old frenzy of a hundred fools

To make some thing: the old want dark and deep,

The thirst of men, the hunger of the stars,

Since first it tinged even the Eternal's sleep,

With monstrous dreams of trees and towns and mars.

When all He made for the first time He saw,

Scattering stars as misers shake their pelf.

Then in the last strange wrath broke His own law,

And made a graven image of Himself.

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BY THE BABE UNBORN

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If trees were tall and grasses short,

As in some crazy tale,

If here and there a sea were blue

Beyond the breaking pale,

If a fixed fire hung in the air

To warm me one day through,

If deep green hair grew on great hills,

I know what I should do.

In dark I lie: dreaming that there

Are great eyes cold or kind,

And twisted streets and silent doors,

And living men behind.

Let storm-clouds come: better an hour,

And leave to weep and fight,

Than all the ages I have ruled

The empires of the night.

I think that if they gave me leave

Within that world to stand,

I would be good through all the day

I spent in fairyland.

They should not hear a word from me

Of selfishness or scorn,

If only I could find the door,

If only I were born.

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THE WORLD'S LOVER

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My eyes are full of lonely mirth:

Reeling with want and worn with scars,

For pride of every stone on earth,

I shake my spear at all the stars.

A live bat beats my crest above,

Lean foxes nose where I have trod,

And on my naked face the love

Which is the loneliness of God.

Outlawed: since that great day gone by—

When before prince and pope and queen

I stood and spoke a blasphemy—

'Behold the summer leaves are green.'

They cursed me: what was that to me

Who in that summer darkness furled,

With but an owl and snail to see,

Had blessed and conquered all the world?

They bound me to the scourging-stake,

They laid their whips of thorn on me;

I wept to see the green rods break,

Though blood be beautiful to see.

Beneath the gallows' foot abhorred

The crowds